Show WHO WAS MEANT Yesterday mornings Tribune contained a lengthy and interesting communication from Judge J R McBride in which he I took that paper lo task for its conduct towards that > rtion of the Republican party which was opposed to a third term for President Grant We give below some extracts from Judge McBridos article and following these some from the Tribunes editorial upon it Judge I McBrides article opens in this way It is not a pleasant thing to differ with ones friends but if they insist upon kicking you at pretty regular intervals it requires avery a-very humble spirit to submit without a show of resistance I occupy about the relation indicated to the Tribune It has for a longtime long-time past been in the habit of making aspersions without qualification in its editorial ed-itorial columns upon the motives of those Republicans who in 1880 and prior to that time deemed it their duty or their right to oppose the nomination of General Grant for President a third time and since his death these assaults have given tone to many of its encomiums upon the departed chieftain Judge McBride then goes on to tell wherein the Tribune had insulted the antithird term men and says You say in this mornings Tribuneand it is only a repetition of many statements made in like spiritthat those who refused to support General Grant for a third term were a scurvy crowd and that their pretended pre-tended sorrow at his death was simulated with muoh more in tho same strain which I need not repeat On the day of the funeral of the hero the Tribune opened the grave of the dead Garfield Gar-field and charged him with ineffable meanness mean-ness and base ingratitude because he de olined to permit a Senator of the United States to dictate to him whom he should appoint to the office of Collector of the port of New York In one sentence you I threw flowers on the casket of Grant in the I next you violated the grave of a martyred President in order to drop words of poison on his name I allude to these articles to show how apparently ap-parently eager the Tribune has been to seize upon occasions of universal sympathy with the late hero of the country to assail those who in partisan action in the past have not been able to secure its approval Your conduct con-duct in this particular some of us have the temerity to believe savors largely of that Mormon habit so familiar to us all of using a funeral service as an occasion to wreak spite on the living In this instance tho dead are included as well as the living offenders After this comes this wonderfully just and accurate eulogy of the Tribune And I think the expression of such an opinion now by the Tribune indicates more of passion and prejudice than of calm deliberation delib-eration or respectful consideration for the thousands of honest and wise men who do not share it Those are quite severe charges and would naturally arouse the ire of the Tribune They did and it said concerning concern-ing Judge McBride Nothing in our article reflected upon Judge McBride or men like him and if his eyes had not been blinded for the moment by unreasonable passion he would have so understood it Never was n man so hounded and so lied about by a certain crowd as was Grant from 1872 until he with Coukling saved the election of the Republican candidate candi-date in 1880 Those wore a scurvy crowd and there are not whips or racks enough in the universe to make us take it back Now seeing that Judge McBride was hasty in thinking that such as he were meant and his position in regard to the third term business would fully justify him in so thinking by the Tribune but that he was not for the Tribune says that nothing in its article reflected upon him or such men as he it is certain that someone some-one must have been meant and so we think we are justified in concluding that those whom tho Tribune did mean by its article were the Young Democrrcy |